Testing mapmyrun.com

That should be the 5 mile route above, but it doesn't appear when I view it. Maybe people using a different browser can see it and will let me know. (I'm using Safari on a Mac.) You can access the route here though.

I've been using Map My Run for a while now because I find it fascinating to know down to the one one-hundredth of a mile how far I am running. I want to to know precisely where my splits are so that I can time myself and fret over how I was a few seconds slower than yesterday. I rode my bike (I have an odometer on it that measures in hundredths of a mile) on part of my favorite 3.3 mile route one day so I could determine precisely where the one mile mark is. I've even considered carrying the GPS with me to get a better measurement. In other words, I'm obsessed.

Anyway, check out Map My Run. My recommendation is to select "Follow Roads" to make it easier. They still have some bugs to work out, but it's a great tool if you need an accuracy fix like me.

What a Summer!

So the culprit was not the mosquito but another dear/deer friend here in New England:



That's right, friends. It's a deer tick. I never saw the silly thing and I never knew I'd been bit, but I got a whopping case of Lyme disease in August. Chills, fever, bullseye rash all over my body (hands, arms, legs, and torso). I was sick for over 2 weeks before I was diagnosed. My own fault, really. Though I had suffered through a week of the chills, fever, fatigue, etc., I didn't go to the doctor because--get this--my temperature could be kept around 100 degrees if I stayed on Advil so I stupidly reasoned I must be getting better. Actually I just desparately wanted to go on vacation to New Hampshire so I was willing to convince myself in any way possible that I was not that sick.

The rash broke out while we were in NH. By the time we got home we knew something serious was going on. We quickly figured out it must be Lyme. I went to the doctor and lo and behold, tested positive for LD. I went on the antibiotics. After 2 1/2 weeks I started reacting to those (tingling in the hands, constant flushed feeling) and quit.

So I started the summer with cardiac arrest and ended it with Lyme disease. Surely I am done with the sad tales, right?